[OSGeo-Discuss] "git" like for geodata management

[Raj Singh]

Just to add another option to the discussion, OGC has a Geosynchronization specification getting close to being finalize. It uses XML requests from the Web Feature Service - Transactional spec to describe actions on a spatial database such as add, modify, delete. Like CouchDB, it also doesn't specify what to do about conflict resolution. This has to be done with your software smarts.

OGC® Loosely Coupled Synchronization of Geographic Databases in the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Pilot
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=26609

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Raj



On Sep 20, at 7:46 PM, Volker Mische wrote:

> On 20.09.2010 11:48, maning sambale wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Just something for brainstorming.
>> 
>> Use case:
>> 1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days.
>> Coming back from field work, I "sync" the edits to the main data
>> server.  An application takes care of the merge like git does.
>> 
>> 2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area.  An
>> application manages the conflict before merging to main data server.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> for the sync part you should have a look at CouchDB [1]. Though it doesn't do the hard part of resolving conflicts. This part would need to be coded.
> 
> [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/
> 
> Cheers,
>  Volker
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